Minneapolis posts anti-ICE video promoting 'peaceful protest' and unity

The metropolis of Minneapolis connected Friday posted an anti-ICE video promoting "peaceful protest" and unity arsenic confrontations betwixt agitators and migration officers proceed to flare crossed the Twin Cities.

The 84-second video shared connected the Minneapolis City YouTube leafage opens with a Minneapolis concern motion that reads: "We emotion our Somali neighbors." Throughout the video, aggregate anti-ICE protestation slogans are seen, including signs that work "Abolish," "Ice retired of our neighborhood" and "neighbors accidental ICE out."

"Those who dispersed fearfulness privation attention," a voice-over says successful the video. "The champion mode to combat backmost and support each different harmless is not to springiness into them. Live your lives. Take attraction of 1 another. Support section businesses. Put your vigor into peaceful protests and assemblage support. Steer wide of the hate."

The video past shows interviews with members of the community, including with religion leaders and images of Mayor Jacob Frey testifying past week astatine a Democratic Immigration hearing.

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Pro-immigration protesters, galore holding signs telling ICE to leave, rally successful beforehand of Minneapolis City Hall, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

The caption of the video reads: "We cognize folks crossed Minneapolis are feeling scared, aggravated and uncertain. What those spreading fearfulness and hatred privation astir is attraction - to agitate and escalate convulsive confrontation."

The caption goes connected to accidental that the assemblage should proceed to "meet this infinitesimal unneurotic with peace, unity, and the welcoming values that marque Minneapolis truthful special."

Protesters stitchery successful beforehand of the Minnesota State Capitol successful effect to the decease of Renee Good, who was fatally changeable by an ICE serviceman past week, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, successful St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Tensions flared successful Minneapolis aft 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally changeable connected Jan. 7 by an ICE serviceman portion allegedly blocking an migration cognition successful the metropolis and driving toward the officer.

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Agitators crossed the Twin Cities person followed and harassed national agents arsenic they transportation retired operations, with immoderate throwing snowballs astatine agents oregon screaming obscenities done bullhorns from conscionable feet away. Some clashes person resulted in immigration officers deploying capsicum spray and teardrop gas.

Law enforcement detain a antheral extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building during a protestation connected Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, successful Minneapolis.  (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

President Donald Trump's medication is preparing 1,500 troops for imaginable deployment to Minnesota, a elder U.S. authoritative confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The authoritative says the U.S. Army's 11th Airborne Division, which is based successful Alaska and specializes successful cold-weather and upland warfare, has fixed hole to deploy orders. 

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Minneapolis and St. Paul are already hosting immoderate 3,000 national agents deployed determination aft a monolithic fraud ungraded rocked the authorities precocious past year.

Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch and Anders Hagstrom, on with Fox News’ Jennifer Johnson contributed to this report.